Of Ilot Brun

Mr. R. Crusoe

All Noumea was agog the last week in April with news of a real live Robinson Crusoe.

Two young fisherman re ported that when landing on Brun Hot, one of the islands forming the harbour of Noumea, to cook some fish they had caught, they were amazed to see a haggard, bearded apparition dash from the scrub and fall upon their fish, devouring them raw.

Investigation by the Police showed that the “Robinson Crusoe” was a patient who had been under treatment at the Noumea hospital and who had absconded.

No one yet knows how he crossed the wide and deep channel separating Hot Brun from larger He Nou.